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SUBJECT 1: The route is something
that I've been looking at for a number of years
because I spent a lot of time out here.
And so I wanted to climb this tower
and access it via bikes and packrats.
It's called Pinnacle.
But it's super, super far in there, hard to get to.
It just made sense to get flown in with all the stuff.
I've now done quite a few trips with Adam.
SUBJECT 2: This is so sweet!
SUBJECT 1: All right.
Totally count on him.
And especially in climbing situations,
like the climbing that we're doing out there,
you don't get a second chance if you screw up.
So you choose your partners wisely.
Our pilot took off, and we waved our goodbyes.
We rode off into the darkness looking for our first camp.
And lo and behold, there's two sets of fat tire tracks.
I think we have some [INAUDIBLE] tracks right here.
We ride another 200 feet and boom, headlamp pointing at us.
And they can only be two people, my friends Mike and Jenny.
Jenny's ecstatic.
JENNY: Yes!
Yes!
I'm so excited!
SUBJECT 1: And we roll in.
We stoke the campfire up.
Mike's jibbing me about like, oh, you
didn't want us to get the first descent of this canyon.
So you had to come out.
You had to fly in, right.
JENNY: Hey, we can't go do his tower thing.
MIKE: I've been putting up--
I could.
Yeah, right!
We got an extra [INAUDIBLE] if you want to tag along.
MIKE: Do you have any Depends?
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SUBJECT 1: Running into friends like that
is always pretty cool.
Waking up at camp one the next morning, perfect weather.
Everything looked really good.
And from there, we took the bikes down canyon further.
And after about a mile or two, the pinnacle
or the towers that we wanted to climb came into view.
And when you get first view of them, you know,
you're taken aback.
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SUBJECT 2: What is this doing in here?
SUBJECT 1: Yeah, I brought you some light reading.
SUBJECT 2: Yeah!
SUBJECT 1: Cosmo.
SUBJECT 2: Cosmo.
"Touch him this way."
SUBJECT 1: Adam got to do a lap on this thing.
It's as good as it looked.
And the sun was going down, putting the headlamps on,
and still needed to do this like, hour and a half
like backtrack back to our camp.
"It gives me such satisfaction to listen
to him brag when I know the sad truth about his romantic life."
SUBJECT 2: Oh, man.
SUBJECT 1: Jane, 22.
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We spent a lot of time in the narrows as I knew we would.
You're in these narrows that are 100-foot cliffs.
And it's narrow at times, almost tunnel
and subterranean feeling.
In fact, very subterranean feeling.
After riding through there, you just
break out into this huge, open expanse.
And the Dirty Devil River comes through
and these huge sand bars.
Great, sandy riding, perfect for fat bikes,
and it takes you right to the Dirty Devil.
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You can kick back a little bit and just
watch these walls go by you as you slowly and smoothly work
your way down the canyon.
It's a very, very different experience.
You get on the boat, and you're just traveling through.
You're more part of it.
It's very different.
And it's really cool to combine the two.
There was some serious relief when we finally
made the take out.
We had no light left.
There was two minutes left of paddling without headlamps.
Dawn broke, and so all we had to do was just climb up this road
16 miles.
It was kind of nice to look back, and just
look at your buddy, and chitchat while you're riding,
and talk about what you've done.
And pretty excited that you accomplished
what you set out to do.
You can go ride your bike and have fun, but also
have an adventure at the same time.
There's an objective.
Yeah we're gonna climb a pinnacle.
Yeah, we're gonna packrat the Dirty Devil.
But you're also getting little snippets of what's
up these other canyons.
And they give you these ideas of new trips that you want to do.
I mean, the next idea is already in my head.